Chapter 38: The Sword Dancer
For the scarlet girl's swordsmanship guidance, Rod already had a little idea in his heart.
The moment Scarlet nodded lightly, his mood was very complicated, not that Rhodes couldn't serve as a career mentor, but because he didn't want Scarlet to learn that kind of swordsmanship.
As he put it, "It's a kind of swordsmanship that is extremely prosperous and kills everything".
This kind of swordsmanship is beautiful, just like a kendo dancer, under the beauty, the killing machine is lurking.
But the subsequent advancement of this swordsmanship is a bit troublesome.
The main swordsmanship that Rod wanted to teach Scarlet was the mainstream swordsmanship of that high-level profession called [Sword Dancer].
- Sword Dancer.
It was a very special profession in swordsmanship, and the necessary condition for them to change jobs was that they were women.
For the sword dancer, the sword is more than just a weapon – it's an ally, a friend, a companion to the soul. Seeing combat as an art, the dance of death, sword dancers have a tendency to sing in battle.
Sword dancers learn to combine extraordinary martial arts and spells to develop powerful magical energy, gain abnormal special skills, and attach magic to their swords in battle.
They are a kind of magic swordsman.
Once advanced to the Sword Dancer, the advanced person will definitely comprehend the [Sword Song], [Moonlight], [Sword Dance], [Sword Shield] and many other specialties, they are known as "Sword Dancers" in the East, and at the same time, they are also the most troublesome murderous swordsmen.
This is a difficult way to progress, and they have to go through rigorous training in order to master advanced specialties.
And those trainings are very harsh in Rod's opinion, which is why Rod doesn't want to go this way.
What bothered Rod was that there was one of the biggest troubles with this profession.
In the later plot of "The Eve of the Holy War", the gods fell, the demon world descended, and a series of major events caused Ash's turmoil, and the East also opened an ancient secret realm - Kunlun Ruins.
The profession of sword dancer is said to have been handed down by the ancient oriental gods of Kunlun Xu.
And this ancient profession has been passed down from generation to generation with the secret inheritance, and there have been some accidents in the middle, and the advanced method of the ultimate profession of [Sword Dancer] has been lost!
It's a pain in the ass.
In other words, once you choose [Sword Dancer] as an advanced class, then when you advance to the legendary class, you can either go one way to the black, or you will have to switch to other classes.
It's almost the equivalent of scrapping a template.
It hurts.
So when the Kunlun Ruins opened, almost half of the sword dancers of the Ash world entered.
As a sword god, Rhodes has always been a loner, but his good brother "Supreme Sword Emperor" is the leader of an oriental adventure group, and at his invitation, Rhodes also participated in the reclamation of Kunlun Ruins.
As the main C (that is, the main output) of the second team of the Wasteland Development Regiment, he was also the first batch of people to break into the Kunlun Ruins.
At the heart of Kunlun Ruins.
Rod saw the ultimate career of the sword dancer, and his inheritance of the sword dancer was also obtained at that time, but that was precisely the worst part, once Scarlet chose this path, it would be a little troublesome for him to change his ultimate career in the future.
"Ugh."
Rhodes rarely worries about things other than money, but the advancement of this sword dancer is indeed a bit troublesome, and he must take Scarlet to the [Kunlun Ruins] in the East.
It was a place that Rod didn't want to go again.
"There are no victors, we are just primeval survivors...... With nightmares ......" - the gods of Kunlun Ruins
Recalling that terrible scene, Rhodes felt that behind the Kunlun Ruins and the so-called Demon Realm Descent was definitely a big pit set up by the official "Holy War".
Rhodes has been to the heavenly realm, fought in the abyss, and is also a person who has seen big scenes.
But that ruin, to this day, makes Rhodes think about it very scary.
Piles of ancient ruins, special buildings worthy of miracles, and bloody altars of the ancestors of the East......
Everything made Rhodes feel numb in his scalp, you know, at that time, Rhodes could already single-handedly challenge the human sage, but in Kunlun Ruins, he had a sense of crisis that he might be beaten back to level zero at any time.
“……”
Glancing at Scarlet with complicated eyes, Rod didn't say anything more, he silently put away his sword and walked into the room.
Anyway, since Scarlet has chosen this path, then as an elder brother, Rod will accompany her through this road with an obligation, maybe they can't see the end of the road, but Rod feels that even if he falls on the road, his sword will be broken in front of Scarlet first.
The quiet Shadowlands are still teeming with carnage and intrigue.
Rod himself may not know what kind of path he will take with Scarlet.
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Teaching Scarlet Swordsmanship is not so simple, Rhodes doesn't want to kill a genius, and Scarlet is his sister, he naturally has to help her choose the best path, and the training of the sword dancer profession is not something that can be completed simply with a sword, he needs to prepare.
In addition, the recent series of actions in Stormwind City also made Rhodes feel that the storm was coming, and it was necessary for him to improve his sisters' self-protection ability.
No matter what path Scarlet will take in the future, there is a more important thing in front of Rhodes now.
is the so-called three major joys of life, "fighting monsters, upgrading and opening treasure chests".
He's in the midst of an exciting "treasure chest" moment right now.
Rhodes carefully took out a bloody ring, with a look of expectation on his face, and muttered, "The three masters of the Black Rock Gathering Place, there should be some good things in the dimensional ring." ”
This is Mullen's Dimensional Ring.
Rubbing his hands, Rod's expression was a little expectant. As a sword god, it stands to reason that Rod should be as strong as an iron heart, but a penny is difficult to beat a good man, as a senior poor ghost, Rod still has great expectations for valuable treasures.
Regarding Rod touching the corpse, there were a lot of jokes in the former swordsman circle, and some guys who dealt with Rhodes jokingly called him "the sword god who died for money".
Rhodes didn't care so much, a faint magical light appeared on the dimensional ring in his hand, and soon he saw the contents of the dimensional ring.
There wasn't much space for the dimensional ring, but the things inside were very miscellaneous, and there didn't seem to be many valuable things, but Rhodes still flipped through them with great enthusiasm.
"Huh, three potions? Earned, earned. A smile flickered across Rod's face.
With a flip of his hand, three small bottles of potions came out in front of him, two green and one blue.
The green one should be the "Elixir of Life".
The blue one, opening the potion bottle, Rod sniffed, and the veteran adventurer Rod quickly judged that this was a bottle of "energy potion".
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Small Life Flask: Heals 25 damage.
Quality: Average
Serving Size: 2
Recipe: Green Herb + Life Herb
Crafting Condition: Minor Pharmacist
Difficulty: Apprentice
Transaction price: 20 coins
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Secondary Energy Potion: Instantly relieves fatigue.
Quality: Average
Serving Size: 1
Recipe: Green Herb + Sunshine Herb
Crafting Condition: Minor Pharmacist
Difficulty: Apprentice
Transaction price: 30 gold coins
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"At least 70 gold coins, hehe, counting the poverty of the Shadow Domain, it is estimated to be doubled!"
Rod happily put away the two small bottles of elixir, and the smile on his face became more and more intense, for Rode, in addition to improving his swordsmanship, it was earning money to make him happy.
After touching for most of the day, he flipped through a good thing again.
It was a silver dagger half-wrapped in black leather, and it looked a little old, but as a foundry, Rhodes was a man with "weapon identification", and he could tell at a glance that it was a good weapon.
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Name: Poacher's Blade
Quality: Blue
Basic attributes: Physical Attack +213~311
Independent Attack +109~210
Special attribute: Strength +5
Additional Effects: Quick Attack, Extra Critical Damage
Accuracy +1%
Attack Speed +1%
This weapon deals 10% more damage to non-humanoid creatures.
When killing a target, the wielder has a 25% chance to absorb the target's life force and regain a certain amount of stamina.
Weapon Description: This silver dagger, half-wrapped in black leather, has a geometric shape and ridges, and a row of sharp serrations on the back. On its dagger is engraved the small words "Bless me, Jack", the meaning of which is unknown.
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"A blue dagger that is not a secret order," Rod said with surprise in his eyes, and he fondly played with the dagger that looked a little old.
This dagger is not processed with a secret enchantment, it should be excellent when it was forged, and some of the original owner's experiences have caused mutations, it looks like this is a dagger with a story.
In fact, every weapon has a sad or legendary story behind it.
"It's worth at least 500 gold!"
Rhodes gave it a preliminary estimate, but unless it was an assassin or a thief, the price of such a weapon in the Shadowfields should drop a notch.
The Shadowlands are a strange place.
Magical potions like that are particularly popular here, but the high-level weapons that are lacking on the ground are unexpectedly unpopular here, and for the inhabitants here, weapons are only auxiliary, and they still believe in their own strength.
"Flip it over again!"
Put down that dagger, Rhodes is a swordsman, this dagger can be used by Scarlet, he can't use it anyway.
So, he started rummaging things again, but this time it seemed that he had run out of luck, and Maren's dimensional ring was full of materials.
Although it has some value, it is almost useless for Rhodes now.
"Damn, that Malen should have a small vault!"
After turning over the ring he was carrying, Rod was a little annoyed, it was impossible for the high-level of a gathering place to have only such a little value, he should have a private vault. At this time, Rod, who was still beautiful just now, was a little depressed.
Now the Black Rock Gathering Place looks light and light on the surface, and even the three masters who killed Black Rock by Rhodes have been suppressed.
But he knew very well that killing Maren was considered to offend the high-ranking of the gathering place, after all, even the Storm Hunters were coming, and the war was imminent, but Rhodes had killed a high-level shadowman.
If he really went to dig through the vault again, it would really mean that he would be a bit of an inch, and it was estimated that the sane mage would not be able to help but start a war with him at that time.
Fight a mage.
is still a master with a background, not to mention whether he can fight or not, even if he wins, Rod doesn't want to be chased and killed like a lost dog, after all, killing a golden master, the feud can be big.
Stormwind is like a powder keg now, so it's better not to mess with them.